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Nicolas Anelka sees how it's done

Chelsea 2 Tottenham 0

Eagerly awaited, rapturously received, Nicolas Anelka twice came within an ace of a goal and looked well capable of adding to the many he has scored in numerous cities. This, of course, is his second sojourn in London. As a teenager he was whisked away for nothing by Arsenal, exploiting the rules then in force, from an infuriated Paris Saint-Germain. Later, the Gunners casually threw PSG £500,000, subsequently pocketing £22.3m when they sold a dissident Anelka to Real Madrid. Now, aged 28, he cost Chelsea £15m; mere chicken feed to their billionaire owner Roman Abramovich. Anelka seems a much calmer figure now he is no longer handled, as he was at Highbury, by his two belligerent brothers as agents. In north London he had clashes with club and colleagues. And over the years, despite such splendid performances as that against England at Wembley in 1999 when he scored the goals